Dull Knife's genealogy

[coeurrouge]

Hi,

I need somebody to help me to complet or correct the genealogy I build of chief Dull Knife for my website.

I had nothing of his parents. I think his father or an uncle was a chief. He seemed to have a sister but I don't know if he had others brothers and sisters.

I think understand that he married three times and had 4 sons and 7 daughters.
First with a woman nicknamed Well Beloved who commited suicide, in the 1850', when Dull Knife take a second spouse. With Well Beloved, he maybe had a son Bull Hump and a daughter Comenhah(?).

His second wife was Pawnee Woman. This woman gave another son to Dull Knife, Little Hump killed on january 9th, 1879.

He married a third wife, Short One dieing on autumn 1878, at the end of the 1850' or in the beginning of the 1860'. 2 sons of this union went on earth: Goose Feather, killed on novembre 25th, 1876 and Georges, borned on 1875.

If somebody can give informations about this people, I will thank her or him.

[dbspang]

I am also interested in the partners/wives of Dull Knife. Do you have any primary sources for the information you have listed? I am about ready to use secondary sources, such as yours, and hope something surfaces.

[kingsleybray]

this isn't much help, but there is a document in the Beinicke Library, Yale University, the minutes of the treaty council at Ft Laramie, June 1866. The interpreter Bill Rowland was sent out to bring in the Cheyennes. He was intercepted by a party of Oglala Bad Face warriors, who started to whip him because they wanted no treaty. At this point a Cheyenne identified simply as Dull Knife's brother - no name - intervened and rescued Rowland.

In haste, Kingsley

[cinemo]

Dull Knife`s first wife was Goes To Get A Drink ( Well Beloved ). As Dull Knlfe took a second wife, Pawnee Woman, his first wife hanged herself. Pawnee Woman was a Pawnee tribe woman, captured by Dull Knife . Later Dull Knife married Slow Woman, the sister of Goes To Get A Drink.

Slow Woman is known also as Short One or Little Woman ( names sometimes referred to as different women or wives ) This third wife was killed by an accident with a horse in 1878, probably in late september, during the escape to the north

There were a total of eleven children ( seven female, four male ) but I'm not sure about the mothers of the children.

Greetings from Germany - cinemo